Warlords: Conquer the world from the county magistrate

The next day, Fang Guoxuan hurried to find Fang Ji'an and reported: "Commander, how many troops do we need to recruit this time?"

"I plan to recruit 70,000 to 80,000 people. What's wrong, Guoxuan?" Fang Jian said with a smile.

Fang Guoxuan blushed and said, "Commander, there are already more than 100,000 people who meet the requirements, and many more are still signing up to join the army."

Fang Jian guessed that those who signed up to join the army took the food back and let others see that they were really giving out food, which attracted more people to sign up.

"At present, we are short of political propaganda personnel. It is very good that we can use food to arouse such high enthusiasm for joining the army." Fang Jian said with a smile.

"Telegram to all places, today is the last day for recruiting soldiers, and recruitment will be suspended starting tomorrow."

Although each soldier who joins the army is only given 120 kilograms of food, 100,000 soldiers will need 6,000 tons, but there are still many who have registered but failed the assessment. The food donated this time should be no less than 7,500 tons.

After receiving the order, Fang Guoxuan did not dare to hesitate and immediately went to execute it.

As the troops assigned to various places served as police officers, Francis Jian transferred the 1st and 2nd Divisions back to Nanling, preparing to commend the troops, award them ranks, and provide pensions to the soldiers who died in battle.

A total of 4,298 people died in the two divisions. The pension standard set by Franciscan was to pay a one-time payment of 50 silver dollars to each soldier's family.

After that, 40 kilograms of rice were distributed every month for ten years.

At the same time, Fang Jianan called Fang Guoxuan and said, "Guoxuan, make a death plaque for each soldier who died in battle. In the future, the families of the fallen soldiers can be given some preferential treatment in the selection and assessment of officials."

"At the same time, a martyrs' hall will be built in Nanshan to record the fallen soldiers. After they are awarded titles, the shoulder straps of each fallen soldier will also be placed in the hall."

"Yes." Fang Jian was very supportive of this decision and went to do it happily.

More than 800 people from the Guard Division died in this battle. Unfortunately, they were all clones and had no relatives on Diyuan Star, so their belongings could only be placed in the Martyrs' Hall.

As time goes by, Nanshan Province gradually gets back on track and various plans are being implemented in an orderly manner.

On December 28th, new troops recruited from various places arrived in Nanling one after another, totaling people.

On the same day, Francis Xavier awarded titles to senior military officers at the Nanling military camp.

Fang Guoxuan, Li Zhongwu and Zhang Wei were awarded the rank of major general.

Fang Tianming, Jiang Xuanqi, Xie Yuan, Yang Pingchang, Sun Yuhua, and Yu Hui were promoted to brigadier generals, and the rest of the titles were awarded to Fang Guoxuan and others.

For example, Fang Weian, Fang Weiguo and Fang Weijia were all awarded the rank of colonel, and most of the other regiment commanders were lieutenant colonels.

For example, Li Yueshan, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Division, had an official military rank of only major and a positional rank of lieutenant colonel.

Since it was the first time that the ranks were awarded, they were all assessed based on merits in previous battles, so they were not implemented according to the year of suspension.

Of course, there were those who were happy about the awarding of titles, and there were also those who were unhappy. For example, Liu Yong looked at Li Yueshan with a sour expression: "Congratulations, Captain Li."

"Congratulations, congratulations." Li Yueshan thought that Liu Yong was sincerely congratulating him and did not realize that he was dissatisfied with him.

This time, Liu Yong's official military rank was also major. Logically speaking, he should be at the same level as Li Yueshan, but the other party was the regiment commander while he was only the battalion commander.

Moreover, the review process for job promotion is very strict. If you are slow at one step, all steps will be slow.

Thinking back to when he was in the militia, he was a leader and Li Yueshan was just an ordinary soldier. But now the other person holds a higher position than him, so how could he accept that?

Of course, Liu Yong was thinking that he must make greater contributions on the battlefield so as to surpass Li Yueshan.

Wang Tieniu and Wei Congjun were given the shoulder straps of lieutenant colonels. Logically speaking, Wang Tieniu and Wei Congjun were company commanders, and their shoulder straps should have been captains, but because they had made meritorious contributions many times, their military ranks were also promoted to lieutenant colonels.

This time, not only were officers awarded ranks, but many soldiers were also promoted to non-commissioned officers, so the soldiers were in very high spirits.

Afterwards, Fang Jian called several high-ranking officers together and said, "I plan to reorganize the troops, change the troops to the Nanshan Army, and change the Guard Division to the First Division of the Nanshan Army."

"Take the First Division as an example. A division has four infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a guard battalion, a special service battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, a firepower battalion, and an engineering battalion."

"Including the logistics department, communications department, medical team, herald department, and officers such as the division commander, a total of 100 people."

"The remaining 1st and 2nd Divisions, along with the newly recruited soldiers, will be reorganized into six divisions and will begin training together."

After introducing his arrangement, Fang Jian asked, "Do you have any comments?"

No one had any objection to expanding the size of the army. The only regret was that their positions were not promoted.

After arranging the original 1st and 2nd Division troops and the newly recruited soldiers to intensify training, Fang Jian returned to his office.

Once the reorganization is completed, including the security division, he will have eight divisions. At the same time, the selection of eight division commanders also gave Fang Jian a headache.

Currently, there are only four people who have reached the four-star command level, namely Fang Guoxuan, Li Zhongwu, Jiang Xuanqi and Zhang Wei. These four people can be appointed as division commanders, but the remaining four division commander positions are difficult to choose.

Whether it is Fang Tianming, Xie Yuan, Sun Yuhua and others, they are only commanders of three and a half stars. They have no problem being regimental commanders, but can only be considered barely qualified to be division commanders.

If these people are promoted to division commanders now, it will be difficult to deal with them in the future. With their current qualifications as division commanders, it is inevitable that they will be promoted to army commanders or military region commanders in the future, but their abilities are obviously insufficient.

"System, exchange four five-star military talents, one five-star air force command and combat talent, and one five-star armored command and combat talent for me." After thinking for a long time, Fang Jian decided to exchange from the system.

"Ding, exchange successful, 300,000 points deducted, five talents will arrive in four hours."

Fang Jian was very sad to lose 300,000 points in one go.

In the afternoon, Fang Jian met with six people, namely: Cai Tingwu, Zhao Linyu, Wang Zhixian, Li Weiling, Liu Maohang, and Xu Tingen.

Liu Maohang is good at commanding the air force, and Xu Tingen is good at commanding armored forces.

Fang Jian looked at the six people and said to Liu Maohang: "Maohang, I am going to set up an air force. I am currently building an airport. I will temporarily appoint you as the commander of the Nanshan Province Air Force."

"We will not let the commander down." Liu Maohang said excitedly.

Afterwards, Fang Jian said to Xu Ting'en: "Ting'en, the armored division is different from ordinary troops. It is more professional and has higher requirements for soldiers."

"I appoint you as the commander of the armored division. Do you have the confidence to build the armored division within a year?"

"Report to the commander, yes." Xu Ting'en said loudly. He was appointed as the division commander when they met for the first time. How could Xu Ting'en not be excited.

Fang Jian nodded, and then appointed Cai Tingwu, Zhao Linyu, Wang Zhixian and Li Weiling as the commanders of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Divisions respectively.

After several people expressed their gratitude and loyalty, Fang Jian asked Wang Hu to arrange them to the military camp.

At present, under the appointment of Fang Jian, the commander of the garrison division is Jiang Xuanqi, the commander of the first division is Fang Guoxuan, the commander of the second division is Li Zhongwu, and the commander of the third division is Zhang Wei.